Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy eBook

Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy eBook is an established textbook that provides you with full coverage of the physicochemical principles essential to the modern pharmacist and pharmaceutical scientist.

This sixth edition continues to boast a broad chemical and physicochemical base and covers every aspect of drug properties from the design of dosage forms to their delivery by all routes to sites of action in the body. Now with more clinical examples, new questions and extra case studies it encourages you to apply this knowledge and understand how these fundamental concepts relate to both clinical and industrial practice.

1. Solids
2. Physicochemical properties of drugs in solution
3. Drug stability
4. The solubility of drugs
5. Surfactants
6. Emulsions, suspensions and related colloidal systems
7. Polymers and macromolecules
8. Drug absorption basics and the oral route
9. Parenteral routes of drug administration
10. Paediatric and geriatric formulations
11. Physicochemical interactions and incompatibilities
12. Adverse events: the role of formulations and delivery systems
13. Peptides, proteins and monoclonal antibodies
14. Pharmaceutical nanotechnology
15. Physical assessment of dosage forms
16. Generic medicines and biosimilars